Christmas time is here . . .

Thought you's guys would like a little Christmas treat. And if your office or place of employment is anything like mine, you're probably sick of hearing Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell Rock (especially when sung by Mecha-Streisand), White Christmas, or any other song played on XM 35 Holly. Nothing like a little Run DMC to get you in the Christmas spirit. And how sweet would it be to get a hat and gold chain for Christmas?

Last minute gift ideas for the FJ . . . (or crap found on ebay)

It's Saturday morning, snowing outside, Susinator is still in sleep mode, and I have the internet and ebay at my disposal. And this is the kind of crap I found. Originally I was just going to go through 10 pages, but this stuff was too good to stop after 10 pages of searching. So 34 pages later, this is the best I found.
1. Hood scoop. Functional . . . nope. But how can you go wrong with the double scoop look?
2. Laptop mount. We have the macbook now so obviously I need to bring it in the FJ so I can mobile blog (could you imagine how dumb the posts would be then. . . brutal).
3. Chrome hood thing. Yeah, because I want people to thing I have a Hummer. And like the hood scoop, installation is easy with double stick tape.
4. Rear roof ladder. Oddly enough, the FJ pictured doesn't have a roof rack. So why do you need a ladder?
5. Seat covers. How classy are these? And the colors are great!!1
6. Chrome blingy (if I ever use bling or any other form of the word on here again, please punch me in the nuts) replacement taillights. It was the closest I could find to Altezza taillights. And we all know how cool those are.
7. Wood trim kit. How classy is this? Nothing adds to the interior like fake, exotic wood covering everything.
8. Projector headlights. They even have the "angel eye". I think these would probably look like tits when they are actually installed (they would look tits and look like tits, weird).
9. Grille cover. Yeah, because I want people to think I have a Jeep.
10. Battery operated, princess FJ. I think I just found how I'm going to paint my FJ.

There was actually more stupid shit on the ol' bay but this is a solid cross section of the shit. What kind of people actually buy this stuff? I mean the FJ (and this may sound a little preachy or like an ad but just hang with me) is a fairly serious off-road vehicle that doesn't have a lot of extra "fancy" stuff. The paint is even non-metallic so it is easier to touchup if you scrap it against trees (or if someone door dings you). Then again, I've seen pictures of people that have put 24's with lowpro tires on their FJ's. And to all those people . . . whatever.

Winter Drive Time Fun . . . Oh boy (end sarcasm)

Wondering what the roads were like this past Sunday from Renville to about Stewart. Well look at the above pics. That pretty much sums it up. No troubles (I mean, we were in the FJ) just a little snow and a lot of wind. Hell, we even got passed a couple of times. Which makes sense, since you could almost see 100 ft in front of you.

Get a Grip Man!!!1

I did get a grip. Actually, two sets of grips. What you're seeing here (like you don't know already) are the awesomest grips from Hippy Killer. Yeah, that is some flake in there. And yeah, they are made out of urethane, so they're hard (speaking of hard . . .uh nevermind) but they are supposed to help reduce the vibes. Which is nice since riding the SR500 is basically like riding a paint shaker. I did scale the top pic down to make it somewhat manageable for you guys on less than 30 mb/s but the bottom pic I left untouched. That's right, straight outta the D90, all 12 megapixels worth. I did that so you could get somewhat of an idea of just how much sparkle these things have. I know, I shouldn't have but I can't help myself.

What Percent???/

Yeah Tim, where's the percent? For everyone else, our good friend Timmy just got pwned!!!1

Swap Meet Score

Ah yes, the Motorcycle Swap Meet. Where hoarders and pack rats come to sell their shit and buy more shit. Even the local chapters of various motorcycle "clubs" come to sell their various cycle parts along with a shirt that has their name on it (I always thought that you couldn't buy your way into a "club" or maybe they're just thinking it's an easy way to make a buck off of Joe Blow with too much money (note to self, print up some shirts with the blog address and sell at next swap meet)). Of course there is always going to be the people that are selling various knick-knacks along side a few old, crusty motorcycle parts. Thankfully, that was kept to a minimum on this particular day. So the Susinater and I went to the 'ol swap meet early Sunday morning hoping to find something cool. I was hoping there would have been more cool than what was there but it's Minnesota and not the world famous Long Beach Swap Meet (check out the various threads on Jockey Journal if you happen to be curious about these, one word rediculous). We were able to find a few cool bits that were worth buying though. If you can't tell from the picture (oh yeah, this is also the first blog pic from the new camera . . . more on that later . . . actually by the time you read this, you will probably have read about it . . . oh well) we picked up a sweet taillight for $5, not really sure when or where it's from but it does say Harley Davidson® on the inside but I really doubt it came from Harley® originally. Then we found the super skinny Z-bars for $20, even though they say $25 on them. The picture makes them look alot bigger than what they are but trust me, they are skinny (at some point I'll get a pic of them on the 500). Next item is a set of foot pegs for $5. Nothing too special about these but they do say Rocky on the bottom of them. And finally we picked up another set of pegs for $15. These are NOS (new old stock or new old shit) items, probably from the 70's or 80's since no bar code is present, just an old stamped number but they were made in Taiwan. So after a few hours of digging through various bins, we walked out of there $55 less in our pockets (the extra $10 was admission, in case you were wondering) and some old motorcycle parts in its place.